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February 18: Sandra Cisneros, My Wicked Wicked Ways (Vintage) Taught by Francesca Moroney
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February 25: Marilyn Chin, Sage: Poems (W.W. Norton & Co.) Taught by Marilyn Chin and Kaecey McCormick
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March 4: Cynthia Weiner, A Gorgeous Excitement (Crown Publishing Group) Taught by Cynthia Weiner and Philip Schultz
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March 11: Colleen Burner, Sister Golden Calf (Split/Lip Press) Taught by Kathie Jacobson
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March 18: Jericho Brown, The Tradition (Copper Canyon Press) Taught by Lisa Bellamy
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March 25: Sigrid Nunez, The Vulnerables (Riverhead Books) Taught by Sylvie Bertrand and Scott Hunter
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April 1: Joan Didion, The White Album: Essays (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Taught by Mark Peterson
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April 8: Pushcart Prize 2025 (Pushcart Press) Taught by Marie Kilroy
Poems: “Why Write Love Poetry in a Burning World” by Katie Farris p. 70; “For Acedia” by Robert Cording p. 146; “Each Other Moment by Jess Greenbaum p. 181; “Five Final Poems” by Charles Simic p. 201; and “Spangle” by John A. Nieves p. 430. Stories: “Riding in Cars With Joy” by Gregory Tower p. 49 and “Growing Up Godless” by Robert Isaacs p. 192.
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Suggested Reading List
Fiction: Valeria Luiselli, Lost Children Archive: A Novel; Javier Marias, The Infatuations; Paul Beatty, The Sellout; John Jeremiah Sullivan, Pulphead; Jenny Erpenbeck, Go Went Gone; Mohsin Hamid, Exit West; Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black; Bernadine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other: A Novel; Xuan Juliana Wang, Home Remedies; Kaveh Akbar, Martyr; Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, The Discomfort of Evening; Richard Powers, The Overstory; NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory; Janet Malcolm, Still Pictures (a memoir); Antoine Wilson, Mouth to Mouth; Bryan Washington, Family Meal; Rabih Alameddine, The Wrong End of the Telescope
Poetry: Victoria Chang, With My Back to the World; Diane Seuss, Modern Poetry; Matthew Dickman, Husbandry; Joan Kwon Glass, Daughters of Three Gone Kingdoms; Rigoberto Gonzalez ed., Latino Poetry: the Library of America Anthology; Rodney Jones, Alabama; Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear; Paisley Rekdal, West: A Translation